According to data compiled by a cloud security team from Druva, an enterprise endpoint backup provider, 92 percent of security breaches are actually avoidable.

After studying recent cloud security and data breaches the team concluded that:

42 percent of these incidents could have been prevented using DAC (Data Access Control).

Source data encryption could have prevented another 28 percent of these compromises.

Secure data backup could have prevented another 32 percent of the occurrences.

Druva’s researchers believe that U.S. businesses could have saved nearly $44 billion, not including lost productivity and time savings associated with recovering from a data breach.

“If we take into account that 70 percent of security incidents occur because of an end-user error (lost portable device, unintended disclosure, physical loss, etc), it’s increasingly important to insure ourselves with better technology,” notes a Druva blogger. “After all, end-users are human, and technology like backup, data loss prevention, and encryption can protect us from being ourselves.”